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But I can't git it off now; I'm too cool. Wait tell I'm standin' in de pulpit on tip-toes, wid de sweat a-po'in' down de spine o' my back, an' fin' myse'f des one argimint short! Den look out fur de locomotive! "Won't yer," he added, after a pause "won't yer, please, sir, spell dat word out fur me slow tell I writes it down 'fo' I forgits it?"
Why, I thought you'd be pleased! I couldn't have any way of knowin' that you'd take it like this." "Shoved it in through a third-story window?" Pete's ingenuous face took on an injured look. "I reckon maybe he stood on his tip-toes," he admitted. "Who was it?" "I don't know," said Pete truthfully. "He didn't speak and I didn't see him.
A long stream of men, vague, whispering shadows, glided away. The women alone remained, praying on their knees. * Montmartre. Pierre, still in the same spot, was rising on tip-toes, looking for Abbe Rose, when a hand touched him. It was that of the old priest, who had seen him from a distance. "I was yonder near the pulpit," said he, "and I saw you plainly, my dear child.
A colored man with a bayonet had every recruit's breast at the point of his weapon, three soldiers surrounded me, and one run his bayonet through the breast of my coat and out under my arm, and held me on my tip-toes, and I was powerless, except with my mouth.
The sender of this great news also stated that Ben Greenway was with Major Bonnet, working as his assistant and here Dame Charter sat open-mouthed and her heart nearly stopped beating young Dickory Charter had also been in the port and had gone away, but was expected ere long to return. Kate stood on her tip-toes and waved the letter over her head. "To Belize, my dear uncle, to Belize!
Minnie was sitting beside Mabel's bed on the third day of the holidays, when she heard a step outside the door. The handle was turned noiselessly, and Mona came in on tip-toes, fearful of creating the least sound. "Miss Chartres didn't tell me you were here," she said, her voice trembling. "How is she?" "I think the fever isn't quite so bad she hasn't been wandering so much this afternoon."
Very well. Warden Atherton gave the final sanction to the badness of my name. I was fair game. More than one convict's dereliction was shunted off on me, and was paid for by me in the dungeon on bread and water, or in being triced up by the thumbs on my tip-toes for long hours, each hour of which was longer than any life I have ever lived. Intelligent men are cruel.
I had the heavy oak bar of the door in my hands, and swinging it round my head I made the crowd give back for a few moments. Meantime Graeme had shaken off his enemy, who was circling about him upon his tip-toes, with a long knife in his hand, waiting for a chance to spring. 'I have been waiting for this for some time, Mr. Graeme, he said smiling.
"Leh Shin," he said, speaking in a commanding whisper, "turn thyself into an ear, and listen for me while I search." Leh Shin nodded silently, half-stupidly it seemed, and went on tip-toes to the door that opened into the passage. All the power of the past was over him, and though he heard the Burman's curt command he hardly seemed to understand what he meant.
The people laughed aloud; the comedian fixed his eyes upon her face, and with hands pressed against his stomach groaned, "O-h! how hungry I am!" and then she opened that bag and drew forth two long, twisted, fried cakes, rose, stood on her tip-toes, and reaching them up to him tearfully remarked: "Here, you poor soul, take these. They are awful dry; but it's all I've got with me."
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